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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy
Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019
This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025633
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2016
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986539
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The marriage market, labor supply and education choice
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503461
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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits : lessons from recent UK reforms
Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, Costas - 2002
Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575128
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003912101
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Partnership dissolution : how does it affect income, employment and well-being?
Brewer, Mike; Nandi, Alita - 2014
We assess comprehensively how incomes, employment, housing, mental health and life satisfaction change following a partnership dissolution, using data from 18 waves of BHPS. We confirm that women and children see living standards decline by more than men, on average, upon separation, but find...
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Parental Divorce and Students' Performance : Evidence Form Longitudinal Data
Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - 2006
parental divorce during adolescence has an adverse impact on students' performance on standardized tests. To account for the … potential endogeneity of parental divorce we employ double and triple differences models that rely on observing teenagers from … intact and divorced backgrounds before and after the divorce occurs. We find that parental divorce does not negatively affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733805
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You Can’t Be Happier than Your Wife - Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit - 2010
divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … household. The relation between happiness gaps and divorce may be due to the fact that couples which are unable to transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148706
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Friday the 13th : the empirics of bad luck
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2014
marriage. We find no evidence that people born on the 13th or those born on Friday the 13th suffer any penalty that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418005